I have pondered a post today...since its our special day....and I don't really know where this may go......
I can't think of my life without Brooks probably because he has been there for over 1/2 of it....and he was even there before then, we just didn't know it....
When my mom and dad divorced in the 6th grade, we moved to Fox Croft Apartments. Well, there was this BRAT that lived a few buildings over and he was always into something...very sneaky! I remember a time when mom went running to the door to find this blonde boy selling candy (only to find out later he took the money and told the school he dropped his box in the creek...YES he was a bad boy)....mom ran into the bed post and broke her toe trying to get to the door....
A few years later my mom was a substitute at West and she had this kid that tried to smooth talk her.....(even then).....
So on October 4, 1997...Brooks asked me from the end of the hallway if he could call me before the football game...my response: Do you REALLY have my number??? I have to be honest when I say I was amusing him trying to heal my broken heart from one of his good friends..he yelled my number down the hallway...and that night we talked till 4 in the morning.....
We shared our finally years of high school together and tried our best to make it work through college...there were rough times, but something always brought us back!
One day we put the pieces together and figured out that the BRAT from the apartments was Brooks and we have had many laughs about the fact that he was responsible for my mom's broken toe!!
So last night I opened the hope chest and 15 years of memories came pouring out...movie stubs, a pager for Outback (yep, he stole that...he was a BAD boy at times), yearbooks, endless cards from the flowers he sent me, notes he put in my car, and then there are wedding things, honeymoon stuff....and now Bryson's scrapbooks......a box that contains our history and all the little things that meant so much then and still now!
15 years of good times and bad times, amazing times and sad times, no matter the time, we have been through so much and have so much to be thankful for, so much to be proud of and some things to be ashamed of, but at the end of this day, I can say that if the next 15 years provide as much as the past we will be just fine!!!
How appropriate that we spent our "dating" anniversary night at the place where it all began...West Iredell High School....on the soccer field coaching/watching our 6 year old play soccer....
My pinterest plug for the night:
15 years
5478 days
2 kids
1 miscarriage
1 city
2 homes
a handful of times I wanted to give up
65 the number of anniversary's I still want to spend with you :)
I LOVE YOU MORE THAN LIFE BROOKS!!!
Thank you for making our life amazing, thank you for 2 amazing kids, thank you for supporting me, thank you for listening to me when I am crazy (he would say this is often) and thank you for loving me!
I love you too, more, always, forever and eternity!
<3, Alysha
